Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
Hire Production Supervisors who own the shift — takt attainment and throughput, andon response, TWI-based standard work, and OSHA-grade safety leadership for crews of 20–80 in aerospace, defense, semiconductor, and battery plants. Attainment and safety records verified with the plant leaders who tracked them.
A structured process for the hire that runs your floor hour by hour — where a weak supervisor turns takt misses into overtime, attrition, and recordables.
30-minute call. Align on shift structure, crew size, takt and attainment targets, union or non-union environment, safety expectations, and start date.
Within 2 weeks we introduce 3–5 Production Supervisors with verified attainment and safety records in comparable plants. References from plant managers and operations leaders included.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee. If the hire fails within the warranty window, we run a no-fee replacement search.
Aerospace rate ramps, semiconductor fabs, and battery gigafactories are hiring front-line leaders from the same thin pool. The Production Supervisors we shortlist have run demanding floors before — and their crews hit rate without burning out.
Every Production Supervisor has a verified shift record — schedule attainment, takt performance, OEE on their lines — quantified and reference-checked with the plant leadership who tracked it.
Reference-verified andon response and escalation discipline: supervisors who clear line stops fast, run tiered daily meetings, and coach through TWI and standard work instead of firefighting.
OSHA recordable and near-miss history reviewed for every candidate, plus the documentation discipline AS9100 and ITAR-controlled floors demand from front-line leaders.
Production Supervisor hires live and die on floor presence, takt discipline, and safety follow-through. Below is what every candidate has documented before you meet them:
Reference-verified schedule attainment and throughput performance on lines of comparable volume and mix.
Verified experience running to takt, balancing crews across stations, and recovering rate after downtime events.
Documented andon ownership — response times, escalation paths, and a tiered-meeting cadence that kept lines running.
Verified TWI job instruction or equivalent training discipline, with standard work their crews actually follow.
OSHA 30 or equivalent, recordable and near-miss history, toolbox-talk cadence, and stop-work authority used well.
Supervisor and senior-supervisor comp bands, including shift differentials, aligned before finalists are introduced.
“Production Supervisor” spans assembly floors, machine shops, and cleanrooms. Below are the profiles we recruit for:
We’ll help scope the role on the call — shift structure, crew size, takt, and safety expectations.
Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks from scoping call. Total time to placement (shortlist through offer acceptance) is typically 3–4 weeks — front-line leaders rarely sit on the market long, so a tight interview loop matters.
Direct-hire search is contingency — a 20% success fee on first-year base salary, with no upfront fee on single roles. Multi-hire programs route through embedded recruiting or RPO, which price as a monthly volume-based fee plus a success fee — typically well below stacked contingency fees at volume.
Most US Production Supervisors land between $70K and $95K base depending on metro and industry. Aerospace, semiconductor, and battery plants typically run $85K–$115K for supervisors with rate-ramp history, plus shift differentials of 5–15% for off-shift coverage. We confirm live comps during scoping.
The supervisor owns one shift — the crew, the takt board, the andon response. A Production Manager owns output across shifts and supervisors, plus planning and staffing. Growing plants usually need the supervisor bench built first, and we will tell you which layer your gap actually is.
Yes, where the role demands it. For aerospace & defense manufacturing we screen for AS9100 floor discipline, FOD control, and ITAR-controlled work-area habits; for semiconductor and battery plants we screen for cleanroom protocol and LOTO rigor.
Yes. Every Production Supervisor placement carries a replacement guarantee, with terms confirmed in writing at engagement start.
Yes. Multi-hire builds — supervisors across shifts plus leads, often alongside Manufacturing Engineers — route through embedded recruiting or RPO.
30-minute scoping conversation. We’ll review the Production Supervisor role you need — shift structure, crew size, takt targets, safety expectations — then recommend the right hire path and start sourcing.
